ARTIST

Same as Sister (Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley)

Led by twin choreographers Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley, Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is a NYC and Toronto-based performance collective celebrating 10 years of collaborative and interdisciplinary storytelling. Their performance and film commissions have been presented/screened internationally at The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance (Toronto); Base: Experimental Arts + Space (Seattle); Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Greece); Danspace Project (NYC); Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre (France); BRIC Arts | Media House (NYC); and New York Live Arts (NYC), among other venues. S.A.S. is currently a commissioned resident artist of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) and Dancemakers’ Guest Curator Programming to support the research and development of “Upstairs, In Our Bedroom”, slated to premiere in 2026 at HERE Arts Center, NYC. Dance/Choreography Awards: Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ 2022 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominee for Outstanding Production, “This is NOT a Remount”; Jerome Foundation’s 2021-22 & 2019-20 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship Alternate & Finalist; Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ 2022 & 2017 Emergency Grantee; Queens Council on the Arts/Queens Arts Fund’s 2020 New Work Grantee; New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2019 Artist Fellow. sameassister.com